I agree Bane71 that he is not "Intentionally" delaying the game. I think his issue is in the work and the construction of the story itself. IF this were a fully fleshed out story, game. He would be able to bring others in from the start of each update to work with him: Someone to translate; someone to code; maybe even an assistant to run the render process as he does the artwork creation and Photoshop. None of this would take away from his control if the narrative, dialogue was complete. He does not do this because it is not written completely. Whether he uses his art to complete a scene then does the dialoogue, narrative or he writes the dialogue, narrative for a scene and then does the art it all results in a very slow process and is very insular to assistance.
He had 43 pages of written work that needed translation at the last update, if I remember the discussion correctly. If we use that as just a reference for update sizes. I would prefer he sit down and spend a month or two just writing the story, game for the next ten updates. Then get the assistance he needs and start production. The production rate improvement would be worth the wait. The 20+days of translation, coding for each update would disappear as it would be done simultaneous to artwork. The scene creation and Photoshop would be the defining element and the rendering would be nearly simultaneous with only a small lag. We could easily see him approach, possibly exceed, 2 PD a year production rate. Versus 2/3rds PD we see now.
Unfortunately it won't happen. No matter how great you think he is Bane71 he ain't Melville, he ain't Tolstoy, he ain't John A. Roebling, and he ain't Stan Lee (Ooops). Is he better than a lot of the other Dev's? Absolutely! Is he going to complete his magnum opus? Highly unlikely! The time frame he is working screams against that. In my previous life we used to say Speed is Life. It also applies here, as he is approaching a two decade production plan. Will you be here in two decades?
